Everything you need to know about the Trackhouse Racing MotoGP team including current riders and lineage

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Trackhouse Racing brought a taste of America back to the MotoGP grid for the first time in more than a decade, but with a new approach, when they debuted in 2024.

Not since Attack Performance Racing and GP Tech contested only certain races in the 2013 season running Kawasaki and Suzuki bikes had an American crew competed in MotoGP until Trackhouse joined. Trackhouse also sought to follow the trail icons like Nicky Hayden blazed.

But being competitive was not the only target Trackhouse wanted to achieve in the premier class. Instead, after making an instant impact in the NASCAR Cup Series, Trackhouse sought to utilise the brand’s marketing and content creation vision to shake up two-wheeled racing.

So, with that in mind, MotoGP News takes a look at everything that you need to know about Trackhouse Racing in the world of motorcycle racing from the team’s lineage to their riders…

Trackhouse Racing MotoGP team name

The Trackhouse Racing MotoGP team gained their name as an offshoot of the Trackhouse Entertainment Group for which founder Justin Marks created the entry. Trackhouse Racing is also the name of the group’s entries across both MotoGP and the NASCAR Cup Series.

Trackhouse Racing MotoGP founding year

Justin Marks, the founder of the Trackhouse Entertainment Group, founded the Trackhouse Racing MotoGP team ahead of the 2024 season after taking over the RNF Racing operation.

Marks established the Trackhouse Entertainment Group in 2020 after retiring from competing as a sports car and a NASCAR driver. The NASCAR Cup Series moving to a more economical model also tempted Marks to establish Trackhouse as a racing team for the 2021 campaign.

The Trackhouse teams do not operate like most motorsport outfits as Marks gives a priority to bringing innovative ideas to the series his crews compete in – such as having LED screens and live entertainment on their NASCAR race haulers, plus a creative line of merchandising.

Trackhouse Racing MotoGP current riders

Trackhouse Racing currently fields Raul Fernandez plus Ai Ogura as their two full-time riders for the 2025 MotoGP season. Fernandez transitioned to Trackhouse in 2024 having been at RNF Racing in 2023. Trackhouse signed Ogura for his MotoGP debut in the 2025 campaign.

Trackhouse Racing current MotoGP team manager and leadership hierarchy

Trackhouse Entertainment Group founder Justin Marks sits at the top of the leadership tree of the Trackhouse Racing MotoGP team. The American crew also struck an impressive coup in February 2024 as Trackhouse hired Davide Brivio to join the entry as their team principal.

Brivio is one of the most respected team leaders in motorsport and he led the factory Suzuki team when Joan Mir won the MotoGP riders’ championship in 2020. The Italian also worked for Yamaha in World Superbikes and MotoGP, and later for the works Alpine Formula 1 team.

Trackhouse Racing are a MotoGP satellite team of Aprilia

Trackhouse Racing are the only satellite Aprilia team on the MotoGP grid in 2025 and enjoy close ties with the Italian motorcycle brand. Trackhouse chose to forge a close alliance with Aprilia before joining MotoGP in 2024 after their success with ties to Chevrolet in NASCAR.

Team boss Justin Marks wanted to replicate the benefits that Trackhouse gained in NASCAR by having a powerful relationship with a major brand in MotoGP. Marks also went directly to Aprilia to propose Trackhouse having a direct connection by having their resources together.

Which bike does Trackhouse Racing run in the 2025 MotoGP season?

Aprilia Racing supply Trackhouse Racing with two, full factory-specification RS-GP25 bikes in the 2025 MotoGP season. It is the first time that Trackhouse have started a term with two factory-spec bikes after opening their debut campaign in 2024 with a GP23 plus a GP24.

Trackhouse Racing MotoGP team lineage

The Trackhouse Entertainment Group debuted with its own MotoGP team in 2024 after RNF Racing lost their place on the premier class grid. The FIM, IRTA and Dorna Sports announced Trackhouse Racing would replace RNF Racing as a satellite Aprilia team in December 2023.

Trackhouse Racing were successful in applying to replace RNF Racing as a new independent entry with two Aprilia bikes after the FIM, IRTA and Dorna Sports decided against renewing RNF’s contract. RNF were found to have breached the Participation Agreement for MotoGP.

RNF Racing only competed in MotoGP for two years before Trackhouse Racing took over the Malaysian entry. The lineage of Trackhouse also stretches beyond RNF, as the team’s origins stretch back to the Sepang Racing Team (SRT) which the Sepang International Circuit owned.

SRT started out in 2015 as a Moto3 team before expanding into Moto2 in 2018 and MotoGP running satellite Yamaha bikes in 2019. Yamaha also provided factory support to SRT to field Franco Morbidelli in 2019, Fabio Quartararo in 2020 and racing icon Valentino Rossi in 2021.

Morbidelli was even the top Yamaha rider in the 2020 MotoGP standings with second place, just 13 points behind champion Joan Mir. SRT also won six MotoGP Grands Prix. But the loss of a title sponsorship deal with Malaysian oil giant Petronas saw SRT shut down after 2021.

Razlan Razali and Johan Stigefelt took over what remained of the SRT operation to remain in MotoGP as RNF Racing in the 2022 season. But the re-branded entry would not win another Grand Prix with Yamaha bikes in the 2022 campaign or after moving to Aprilia bikes in 2023.

Trackhouse Racing MotoGP riders’ championships

As of the time of writing, Trackhouse Racing are yet to win a MotoGP riders’ championship.

Trackhouse Racing MotoGP teams’ championships

As of the time of writing, Trackhouse Racing are yet to win a MotoGP teams’ championship.

Trackhouse Racing factory base

The Trackhouse Racing MotoGP team work out of two bases, with their main headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee but the race team works straight out of Aprilia’s factory in Noale, Italy.

Aprilia designated part of their Noale factory for Trackhouse to base their MotoGP entry at due to the American team being more than just a simple satellite outfit for the Italian crew.

The Trackhouse Entertainment Group also owns a NASCAR Cup Series team which operates out of their factory in Concord, North Carolina, but the Trackhouse MotoGP team does not.

Factory address

Trackhouse Racing MotoGP Team: Via Galileo Galilei, 30033 Noale, Venice, Italy